Modern French painters by Wilenski, R. H - 1947-01-01

HARDBACK "1954 U.S. EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 7th.* Date of Publication: 1954.* Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company, New York.* Binding and cover condition: Dark grey textured linen boards, gilt title to crimson spine label etc. No bumps, slight rubs to corners and to head and tail of spine, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight offsetting marks to end-papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Numerous b/w and 10 coloured art reproductions.* Pages: 325 pp. text. 99 pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern french painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last hundred years in Paris. The story begins, properly speaking, with the foundation of the Salon des Independants in 1884; but it is preceded by a Prologue starting in 1863 when Napolean III created the Salon des Refuses where Manet?s Dejeuner sur l?herbe (now an object of respectful veneration in the Louvre) was described as an affront to decency and the work of a vulgar self-advertiser or a man afflicted with disquieting taints; and it continues to the present day --- though it does not end there, because the stream of modern French painting is still flowing and there must be, as the phrase goes, ?as good fish in the water as ever came out of it?.* A VG copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*